02-14-2006, 12:12 AM
This conspiracy shit about the buildings "mysteriously" imploding and falling on top of their footprints is only mysterious to morons who don't have a basic fucking grasp on physics and structure.
Plane hits building, punches a hole through it, and sets the interior on fire; building remains standing. These fucking douchebags think that the building oughta have tipped over. WHY THE FUCK FOR? SINCE WHEN DOES A BUILDING REACT TO A SIDE IMPACT AN HOUR FUCKING LATER? If it was going to tip, it would have done so when it first striked.
When the building actually did fall down, it wasn't because the temperature melted the steel into liquid, which is what these dumbass think ought to have happened. Steel usually doesn't melt in a fire, even one as large as the WTC fire created; instead, it deforms. Once that deformity occurs, whatever strength that steel had previously has been signifantly reduced. Now, back to the hole in the side of the building. The WTC was conceived by turning its skin into the structure which supported the building. Lots of metal vertical members all around the outside, with steel bar joists hung onto the skin at each floor. When the planes struck, the skin transferred the load of the upper floors onto the remaining intact members, which could have probably handled it if there had been no fire. Alas, since there was a fire, every floor above had its bar joists deformed, until they could no longer handle the load of the floor. Once that first floor falls, the impact and force will just keep increasing with every proceeding floor which fails under the added load. AT NO FUCKING TIME SHOULD THERE BE ANY FUCKING REASON FOR THE BUILDING TO TIP OVER, SINCE THERE IS NO FORCE COMING IN FROM THE SIDE THAT WOULD MAKE THE BUILDING DO SO. It's a fucking 110 story building, which means it's pretty heavy, which would also mean that the force needed to bring the floors collapsing onto each other would be pretty close to the force needed to make the building deviate from falling right on top of itself.
I swear, we live in a country of morons.
Plane hits building, punches a hole through it, and sets the interior on fire; building remains standing. These fucking douchebags think that the building oughta have tipped over. WHY THE FUCK FOR? SINCE WHEN DOES A BUILDING REACT TO A SIDE IMPACT AN HOUR FUCKING LATER? If it was going to tip, it would have done so when it first striked.
When the building actually did fall down, it wasn't because the temperature melted the steel into liquid, which is what these dumbass think ought to have happened. Steel usually doesn't melt in a fire, even one as large as the WTC fire created; instead, it deforms. Once that deformity occurs, whatever strength that steel had previously has been signifantly reduced. Now, back to the hole in the side of the building. The WTC was conceived by turning its skin into the structure which supported the building. Lots of metal vertical members all around the outside, with steel bar joists hung onto the skin at each floor. When the planes struck, the skin transferred the load of the upper floors onto the remaining intact members, which could have probably handled it if there had been no fire. Alas, since there was a fire, every floor above had its bar joists deformed, until they could no longer handle the load of the floor. Once that first floor falls, the impact and force will just keep increasing with every proceeding floor which fails under the added load. AT NO FUCKING TIME SHOULD THERE BE ANY FUCKING REASON FOR THE BUILDING TO TIP OVER, SINCE THERE IS NO FORCE COMING IN FROM THE SIDE THAT WOULD MAKE THE BUILDING DO SO. It's a fucking 110 story building, which means it's pretty heavy, which would also mean that the force needed to bring the floors collapsing onto each other would be pretty close to the force needed to make the building deviate from falling right on top of itself.
I swear, we live in a country of morons.